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East Hampton Town Effort To Create Vaccination Site Pays Off

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Sherri Rosenblatt gives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine injection to East Hampton firefighter Chris Hatch during a vaccination session held at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons facility on Stephen Hands Path in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon. MICHAEL HELLER

Rose Smith, RN takes a bundle of syringes re-loaded with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for her vaccination station from Dr. Gail Schoenfeld during a vaccination session held at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons facility on Stephen Hands Path in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon. MICHAEL HELLER

Sherri Rosenblatt gives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine injection to East Hampton ex-chief David Brown during a vaccination session held at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons facility on Stephen Hands Path in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon. MICHAEL HELLER

Used bottles of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and their Sodium Chloride diffuser during a vaccination session held at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons facility on Stephen Hands Path in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon. MICHAEL HELLER

Dozens of volunteers from the East Hampton community manned a vaccination site set up by East Hampton Town on Saturday and administered more than 330 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine... more

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There are still precious few ways to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine. There have been some pop-ups of vaccine locally, though notifications and appointments have been very limited. Essentially, you have to get lucky with an appointment or a call from the POD itself offering appointments to those already on a contact list for other reasons. Eventually, as more vaccine becomes available, most pharmacies and doctors offices will be able to offer shots directly to their established customers, or schedule appointments from the community. Until then, however, the main resource is still New York State’s notoriously overloaded online ... by Staff Writer